help choosing 1st 1/8th brushless buggy

[jasonwipf]

Oh as for caster vs. kyosho. Kyosho is good but expensive and caster is cheap but parts get loose quick and all the caster team drivers in our ara who where given casters to run have quit using them due to losing too many races once they switched to them. OUCH. If you want a good Ebuggy for the money the Hyper 9E rocks and is a tad cheaper than many of the big boys, yet run neck and neck with them. Cheap parts too and way cool chassis design.

[Marvin]

It's not that cheap though compared with the Caster/Kyosho. My main issue with Kyosho is that they refuse to bring out any RTR car on a new chassis - just use a 7.5 all the time. It's dead, outdated!

[steelie600]

rc8e or rc8te for me im afraid, Hyper in its current form is too fragile, kyosho and caster are just cack, you get what you pay for. Buy right buy once imo.

My setup would be (will be for next year)

RC8be (RC8b with the Rc8 conversion kit), MMM and Neu motor, electro clutch and real brakes, Savox servo, and the Reedy 40c 5000mah battery.

Yes its high end kit but the quality is there and the potential to win races is there straight out of the box

[offroadrc]

i have a rc8t factory team with an e conversion kit, 6s lipo zippy hardcase, medusa 36-70 v2 1600kV afterburner motor, a ezrun 150 esc and a servo from hobbycity that i also use in my durango it pulls 16kg and it's fast for 28 Euro this is going great.

[jasonwipf]

Originally Posted by offroadrc

i have a rc8t factory team with an e conversion kit, 6s lipo zippy hardcase, medusa 36-70 v2 1600kV afterburner motor, a ezrun 150 esc and a servo from hobbycity that i also use in my durango it pulls 16kg and it's fast for 28 Euro this is going great.

Is that hobbycity esc any good. the shape sorta looks like a castle clone with sensor ability. Does it get hot?

[frogger]

Zippy's are brilliant batteries. I use them in all my heli's and have bought a bunch of them for my other cars too. Very punchy and last many many cycles with good cell construction.

[Marvin]

Originally Posted by jasonwipf

Is that hobbycity esc any good. the shape sorta looks like a castle clone with sensor ability. Does it get hot?

Read my guide.

Can we get that stickied?

[mobile chicane]

it seems apex are doing the caster rtr for £240, I know there are better buggys out there but as it will be my basher car with ocational outings to swindons out door track it will be ideal for me.

I know they work loose quickly but if you strip and rebuild the rtr when new using a decent thread lock and replacing normal nuts with nylock where necessary I dont think it should be a problem

[adrictan]

I do'nt know abt losing parts. I run the EX1 Pro for training and the F8T Pro for races. I've not encountered problems as stated. As per any car, check, tighten, threadlock. I race against X2 CRTs, Losi 8Ts and have managed to hold my own.

[offroadrc]

Originally Posted by jasonwipf

Is that hobbycity esc any good. the shape sorta looks like a castle clone with sensor ability. Does it get hot?

it's a very good esc and it's not a clone, speedpassion has the same esc but the 80A 4s version. i have the 150A and it's great.

[Marvin]

He only said 'looks like'.

As stated though, Hobbywing own Speed Passion, and the Speed Passion Silver Arrow ESC is just a Hobbywing 80A with a lovely bent piece of metal on there. The new Hobbywing 80A/150A ESCs look much better.

Main disadvantage is that they're huge ESCs - even compared to the Castle!